Depending on who you're dealing with, being sued could be vastly preferable to being on the bad side of certain illegal entities. They might do anything from t

Depending on who you're dealing with, being sued could be vastly preferable to being on the bad side of certain illegal entities. They might do anything from threaten you, blackmail, cyber sabotage, or worse, all the way up to literal murder. If I was a scammer, I'd probably focus on regular people over illegal entities, as the regular people probably have much more limited options for recourse. Illegal businesses also probably have some decent experience in using escrow or other methods (above) of making sure illicit contracts are properly filled. In other cases though they might just accept a loss as a form of shrinkage, like if an individual drop shipper didn't end up reshipping packages purchased with stolen credit cards. If you're doing your crime entirely online it might be easier to just let certain things go than to try and chase down the offender.